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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Coursera president Daphne Koller: Your old college diploma isn’t good enough for the 21st century economy - ERIC JOHNSON, Recode

A college degree, per the old conventional wisdom, was your ticket to a career of better work and higher pay. That may still be true, but the digital economy demands ever more, Coursera president and co-founder Daphne Koller said on the newest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. Coursera’s pitch to students is that education should last a lifetime and that it’s too big a risk for them to stop learning new skills in their 20s. "The things you learned in college 15 years ago are no longer the skills that you need for your next job," Koller said. "Millennials today are expected to change jobs something like every three years. The job that they need next is going to have a completely different skillset than the job that they previously had."
http://www.recode.net/2016/6/20/11974092/daphne-koller-coursera-online-college-education-podcast

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